Chapter 39: Officer Ma

  Because I developed earlier, among ten-year-old children, I was the outstanding type, so I got used to standing in the back.

  It was a wonderful coincidence to see Tian Jiao Mei, who stood out among the girls. Even with my poor eyesight, I could see her clearly, and she must have seen me too. We exchanged a smile, which seemed to convey more than a thousand words, and I felt content in my heart.

  Satisfied, yet inexplicably, a sense of tenderness arose in my heart, making me want to hold her close, protect her, and cherish her... She seemed to have noticed my unusual behavior, looking slightly embarrassed as she lowered her head, her small hands tugging at the hem of her clothes.

  This atmosphere can't last long, no matter how many classes gather here, there will always be crowding or you say one sentence and I say another, even individual acquaintances will break this delicate balance.

  Ye Mengting suddenly appeared behind Tian Jiaomei and said loudly:

  "Hey, Ren Yiyue, we meet again! How can you see me and not even greet me? Won't you forget about me that quickly?"

  Although I knew she was a soprano and understood that this was just her normal speaking voice, it didn't have to be like that of an abandoned shrew, I expressed my helplessness and had to explain:

  "What's wrong with you? Don't wrongly accuse me! I really didn't notice your existence just now!"

  It's better not to explain, once explained, she seems to have lost her charm and was ignored by me, she suddenly raised her eyebrows, rounded her eyes, and ridiculed me with a barrage of sarcastic remarks:

  "It's indeed a great figure, how can someone like me, a small potato, enter your esteemed family? Only some goddesses can catch the eye of a great god like you, it's not suitable for a humble girl like me... I apologize..."

  As he spoke, he looked at me with a face as red as pig liver, and his words became more and more flavorful.

  Just then I had just explained and found the problem, was regretting and lamenting how I could say such an unkind word. Unexpectedly, the little girl wouldn't let me off the hook, her mouth was full of sarcasm for half a day. I thought to myself: although I made a slip of the tongue, it's not worth being ridiculed like this, really...

  Thinking of how to shut her up, Xiaomei discovered this and actively helped me out by saying: "Alright, Xiaoting, the young man was just talking to me."

  I looked at her with gratitude, and she smiled back at me.

  Ye Mengting was not so ignorant of the situation either, she obediently shut her mouth, stuck out her tongue at me, and then hid behind Xiao Mei.

  Liu Jinsong is the tallest among the newcomers, already twelve years old this year. He also walked back at this time and saw that the three of us seemed to be talking, and said politely:

  "Human righteousness month, Little Plum, do you know each other? What are you discussing?"

  As soon as I heard his title, I knew he was familiar with Xiaomei. However, thinking about it again, he is the nephew of Vice President Long Hongneng and Xiaomei is the granddaughter of the president, and she had such excellent physical talent when she went on stage for testing that day, which is not hard to explain.

  Tian Jiaomei didn't like being called that, and coldly said: "Don't call me Little Mei, how many times have I told you?" Liu Jin Song was taken aback, while I couldn't help but secretly laugh to myself. It seemed that this Liu Jin Song was one of Tian Jiaomei's suitors, but had always been rejected. Thinking back, when I asked her out, she agreed right away. Unconsciously, a wave of delight washed over me, and the slight unhappiness from my earlier slip-up seemed to have vanished.

  Ye Mengting, the little girl, was a mischievous imp. Seeing Liu Jinsong's embarrassment, she added fuel to the fire and said: "Oh my, some people are really something! They're not even allowed to call someone, but they still have the nerve to do so with a thick face! What is this?" As soon as her voice came out, it attracted several gazes. Even if one had a thick skin like city walls, they couldn't withstand it, so Liu Jinsong's face was extremely colorful at that moment.

  But in an instant, his face regained its ruddiness, and with a frown and a glare, he said confidently: "What are you looking at? Haven't seen a handsome guy before? Or haven't seen a handsome guy with thick skin? Hmph!" This outburst earned him countless white eyes and snickers. Liu Jin's face couldn't hold up anymore, and he threatened: "What's with the white eyes? Not convinced? If not, come challenge me! Heh heh"

  A sly smile, now no one dares to make a move, thinking of the crowd being shocked by his lewdness, he can't help but feel complacent.

  Everyone saw the two little girls in front of him, clearly rolling their eyes and showing disdain on their faces. Suddenly, they burst out laughing. Liu Jin Song was baffled by the laughter, looking around at the crowd, checking his own appearance again, but not noticing the two little girls. In the end, he could only think: "It must be that no one dares to challenge me, so they're deliberately laughing to cover it up." The crowd thought to themselves, "What are you proud of? Even two little girls look down on you..."

  The laughter stopped, the instructor arrived, attracting our attention and shifting everyone's focus. All we could hear was the sound of "one-two-one", "one-two-one" shouting and footsteps getting closer and closer. Every time they reached a group, an instructor would step out, and our group also got one.

  The instructor's face was stern, upright and unyielding, about 1.7 meters tall, with regular features, strong and powerful, under the shoulder-length blue hair, a military uniform showed his lean figure. A magnetic voice said:

  "Hello everyone, I'm glad to meet you all. I graduated from this college, and I believe you all know that already. My name is Ma Linhai, you can just call me Shixiong (older brother), or Instructor if you prefer. For the next three months, we are teammates and comrades-in-arms, let's work together to do a great job with our military training!"

  "Coach Ma is great!!!"

  Classmates exclaimed in unison, with a sense of majesty and grandeur, it seems that everyone is still used to calling the instructor.

  Soon, two people came over, a man and a woman. This time it was my brother and Tian Mei Gui. They finally became the assistant instructors of our team where I and Xiao Mei were in. They came over to greet the instructor first, then introduced themselves to their classmates, and then revealed some information and anecdotes about the instructor.

  For example, our instructor Ma is a newly graduated one this year and the youngest among all instructors. A group of flower-crazy girls screamed loudly, and two assistant instructors successively exposed his past: what kind of legendary figure he was in college, how excellent he performed in the Home Defense War before graduation, and how many honors he received, etc. Every time they revealed something, the freshmen would scream again, I admired him a bit, but remained relatively calm.

  When my brother and Rose were exposing the truth, I observed everyone's expression. Apart from my brother, I was most concerned about Xiaomei, who also seemed very calm. When she saw me looking at her, she smiled slightly. As Ye Mengting was close to Xiaomei, she also saw her, and she acted like a genuine flower idiot, completely unaware of herself, even when I looked at her, she didn't notice. Looking ahead, Coach Ma was gazing up at the sky with an air of nonchalance, his mouth curled into a smile, eyes slightly narrowed...

  Her eyes scanned around and took in everyone's expressions, but she didn't pay much attention to them. She had already gotten used to all these things, they were just normal human emotions after all.